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An all-female formed has been group for nan upcoming accumulation of Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Patrick Marber, astatine The Old Vic successful London.
Rosa Salazar (High Noon), Indira Varma (Oedipus), Mercedes Bahleda, Nancy Crane, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Florence Odumosu, and Niky Wardley person signed connected to prima successful nan production.
Written by David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross had its world premiere astatine nan National Theatre successful 1983 and was later adapted for nan surface successful 1992. The play was past revived by Marber connected Broadway successful 2025.
The play follows a fiercely competitory group of existent property agents battling for endurance successful a ruthless income contest. Glengarry Glen Ross won nan Pulitzer Prize for Drama successful 1984. The 2026 accumulation besides marks Marber’s first collaboration pinch The Old Vic and will beryllium portion of outgoing Artistic Director Matthew Warchus’s last play astatine nan venue.
“Around this clip past year, I had nan bully luck to beryllium directing Glengarry Glen Ross connected Broadway. It’s a heck of a play to activity on; hilarious, profound, obscene – a thrilling communicative pinch twists that make an assemblage gasp,” Marber said successful a statement.
“It was written successful nan 1980s, but it seems to maine to beryllium astir our world correct now. I’m very excited to beryllium doing it again, this clip arsenic a premiere pinch an all-female cast. And I americium honoured to beryllium making my directing debut astatine nan celebrated Old Vic pinch Mamet’s mighty play.”
Glengarry Glen Ross will tally astatine The Old Vic from June 4 to July 18.
